Summary

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and architect of Trump’s Project 2025, employs intense fire-related rhetoric in his upcoming book, Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America, advocating for a “controlled burn” of institutions he deems corrupt or antithetical to conservative goals.

Roberts calls for dismantling entities like the FBI, Ivy League schools, and the New York Times, framing it as necessary to “renew” America.

His incendiary language has sparked controversy, with critics alarmed by the violent imagery and its implications for Trump’s second term.

  • @FireRetardant
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    505 hours ago

    The boy scouts one is especially baffling. A lot of boys become more traditionally “manly” through boy scouts. It is physically active and they typically learn skills like camping, fire starting, wood working. We were also expected to do good deeds, be polite, and overall be decent members of society that help where is needed, such as litter clean ups and tree plantings. I guess the latter half of my point is where their issues start?

    • @MightBeAlpharius
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      41 hour ago

      I think the issue started a little over a decade ago, when the Boy Scouts got in some hot water for discriminating against gay kids and they actually tried to be better.

    • @Stovetop
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      Maybe because they now allow girls to participate. Integration is “woke” and must be destroyed.

      • morriscox
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        If they are the Boy Scouts and allow girls to participate then this looks to be the start of a trans joke.

      • @TrickDacy
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        I didn’t know that part. I thought conservatives hate them because they now allow gay leaders after being sued to pieces over it. Also didn’t they crack down on pedophiles in the organization? That is the number one pastime of conservative men.

        • @[email protected]
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          Lol. They didn’t get sued to pieces because their leaders were gay, it was because some of them were pedophiles.

          • Miles O'Brien
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            Nobody sued them over gay leaders.

            They got sued by parents over not doing anything about pedos, AND got sued by prospective leaders because they were being prevented from joining over their sexual orientation.

            Bill wanted to be a scoutmaster since he grew up with scouts, but since he was gay, he was not allowed. He then sued the organization over it. (idk names, that’s just for clarity)

          • @TrickDacy
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            I obviously meant that they were sued for NOT allowing gay leaders and I think even scouts themselves. Google it if you care. Conservatives don’t like that they changed the policy on gays.

    • Flying Squid
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      Both of them are pretty baffling. Because you’re right about the Boy Scouts, but also, BlackRock is basically a Republican dream company.

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        Because he’s attacking all institutions that have some sort of control he wants. The wide net just feeds into the deep state narrative and he needs to capitalize on that right now

        Kids, healthcare, education, private equity etc… that’s how you make a dictatorship.

        See it this way, BlackRock has enough power to do to the republican party what the republican party is doing to the gov. They need all of that gone to become maglomaniac authoritarians.

        If I wanted to become Bill Gates, and make my own Microsoft, i first have to outlaw bill gates and Microsoft.

        • JaggedRobotPubes
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          Did you just accidentally almost coin the term “magalomaniac”?

        • @gAlienLifeform
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          I think this is right, but I would add there’s a chance this all ends up being for show and BlackRock makes some public show of fealty to the Trumpists that makes them look powerful and gets BlackRock some government contracts down the line. Like, hypocrisy is no barrier for the right wing, they’re fully capable of writing a whole novel about (e.g.) how we must destroy Google and then turning around and buying a bunch of shit from them.

        • Miles O'Brien
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          The keys to GAINING power are not the same keys needed to KEEP power.

          They gained the power (or will in a few months)

          Now they need to keep it.

          If one of the keys needed to get it could potentially turn on you, it’s better for your regime to eliminate them as soon as possible after taking power.

          For a better explanation, CGP GREY has a video about rules for rulers, which clears things up quite well: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

        • Flying Squid
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          If they already have that much power, it would make more sense to stay on their good side, at least for now, wouldn’t it?

          • @RedditWanderer
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            Now is the time to scare them at least, and if there’s any time to have them on the bad side it’s now. See who kneels and who doesn’t imo.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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            They have the upper hand now, if MAGA is firmly in control of the government, they can dismantle Blackrock in a month.

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                This kind of ignorance is what is most upsetting to me… People just do not seem to be able to grasp the totality of authoritarian rule. I understand why, there is nothing in recent memory even close to this to compare.

                But we have really failed our students by not drilling home just how insidious fascism is. Under fascism, corporations become another arm of the government to be used however the singular leader sees fit. Or they get eliminated.

                • @NeilBru
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                  I’m asking, practically speaking, how will the Trumpers dismantle BlackRock inside of 1 month?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    Executions? In ~2 months, we will be giving one singular man the power to wield the federal government as a weapon against anyone who doesn’t bend the knee (or really for any, or no, reason whatsoever. And this is a very petty man). I don’t know if it’s going to be in under a month, but we have historical examples to look to. This has happened before.

        • Flying Squid
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          I guess the Boy Scouts are “woke” now too since they dared to allow gay scouts and girls rather than fold because they were not making enough revenue.

          • @RattlerSix
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            If it’s not hateful and white it doesn’t represent conservative values, in other words, woke

            • Flying Squid
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              Come to think of it, BlackRock occasionally allows people a shade darker than peach rent their properties too.

      • @FireRetardant
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        I could see the blackrock angle as trying to appease the working class. Like “see we hate big wealth too” but then never actually do anything to hurt blackrock.

    • sylver_dragon
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      Not to mention many troops still have an emphasis on Christianity. Though it’s slightly less mandatory than it used to be.

      • @FireRetardant
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        So are they going to condemn the church as well?

        • Mbourgon everywhere
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          My mother in law has a book about “Woke Jesus”, and I know some churches have had issues because the parishioners think Jesus was a wuss.

          • @nomous
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            “My Jesus can kick your Jesus’ ass!” is the most American thing someone could say

    • @Sterile_Technique
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      do good deeds, be polite, and overall be decent members of society that help where is needed

      They call that “woke”.

      Edit - oh whoops, didn’t mean to just steal that right out of @[email protected] 's mouth.